Per tradition, the torch was lit on April 15 in Olympia, Greece, honoring the historical birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, which date back to 776 BC. Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the ...

The torch was lit in a traditional ceremony honoring the Olympic games' roots in Ancient Olympia Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been ...

The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept ...

Actor Jackie Chan was so excited to carry the Olympic torch atop the Great Wall that he woke up at 4 a.m. on Thursday morning and braved 12-degree weather. Chan was among the torchbearers who carried ...

MOSCOW, October 6 (Itar-Tass) - Moscow hosted a gorgeous presentation of the inalienable components of the 2014 Olympic Games Torch Relay -- the Olympic and Paralympic torches -- at the beginning ...

which included fireworks and and a French Air force flyover with planes drawing the five Olympic rings and the red-blue-white colours of the French flag. The torch was then handed over to the ...

The mysterious character first appeared in a boat to the music of the Phantom of the Opera and carried the Olympic torch for ...